6-point checklist for making sure your sustainability tech pitch is newsworthy

From managing energy with innovative power solutions to decreasing the CO2 impact from food waste, impact-driven tech startups are actively decreasing our carbon footprint. So why isn't there more coverage of these companies driving change? Where many go wrong when approaching the media is by t

Authentication startup FusionAuth raises $65M, its first outside round

Funding for cybersecurity startups continues to look bleak. According to a recent Crunchbase survey, companies in the digital security space raised 30% less funds — $1.9 billion — in Q3 2023 compared to Q3 2022. But some startups are bucking the trend. Case in point, Fus

Procurement management software startup Oro Labs lands $34M investment

Companies are increasingly struggling with procurement — the strategic process of acquiring goods and services to execute tasks across the organization. According to a recent survey from procurement network Procurious and Ivalua, a provider of spend management solutions, 32% of procurement te

Freeplay wants to help companies test and build LLM-powered apps

Freeplay, a startup that lets companies build, experiment with and test apps powered by generative AI models, specifically text-generating models, today emerged from stealth with $3.25 million in a seed round co-led by Conviction Ventures and Matchstick Ventures. Founded by ex-Twitter employees, in

Grant Assistant wants to apply generative AI to grant proposals

Grants are the lifeblood of many organizations. But procuring them often turns out to be a time-consuming, labor-intensive process. Writing a proposal can take hundreds of hours, require the services of a specialized grant writer and cost thousands of dollars — narrowing the pool of potential

Log analysis and security firm Graylog raises $9M in equity, $30M in debt

The decline in VC funding for cybersecurity startups might finally be reversing course after months of discouraging trend lines. Recently, Crunchbase reported that cybersecurity startups raised nearly $1.9 billion through 153 deals in Q3 — a 12% increase from the $1.7 billion raised across 18

Wirepas nabs $22M to expand IoT business based on distributed, mesh technology

Wirepas, a startup out of Finland that is building out an Internet of Things business based on a novel approach — using mesh networking, rather than cellular or Wi-Fi to connect thousands of objects — has raised some funding to give its efforts some oxygen. The company has picked up $22

Confirmed: Palo Alto Networks buys Dig Security, sources say for $400M

We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specifically of Dig Security and Talon. Today, some confirmation of one of those has arrived: The U.S. security giant said it would be acquiring Dig. The company is not disclosing the fi

Yuzu wants to make health plans cheaper by letting insurers mix and match benefits

In the U.S., figuring out ways to pay for health insurance is a perennial problem — not just for individuals, but for the businesses employing them. Companies pay upwards of $22,000 per employee for family coverage, according to health policy publication KFF. And that’ll soon increase &

Guidde’s AI automatically generates software documentation videos

Organizations today rely on a growing number of apps to get work done. According to Statista, in 2022, companies were licensing an average of 130 software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, up from just eight in 2015. What that means for employees, generally, is more work — more work getting up to spe

This proptech startup says generative building design can change the way cities are built

A number of proptech companies help homeowners find their perfect house or real estate agents sell more. However, Cedar is targeting real estate developers with some software to reduce the cost and time it takes them to source and evaluate new housing projects. In residential real estate, it's

SkyCell raises $57M at a $600M valuation to build smart containers for pharmaceutical transport

The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how critical the development and distribution medicine can really be. Vaccines for the coronavirus typically needed to be kept at very specific temperature controls to remain active, so getting them to where they needed to be in temperature-safe condition be

With deadline looming, Broadcom tries to push $61B VMware deal over finish line

Broadcom announced its intention to buy VMware for $61 billion in May 2022. After clearing a number of regulatory hurdles, including the U.S., UK and European Union, it announced in August that the deal would close today. But this morning the company indicated that there was one more obstacle, with

Japan’s MagicPod takes its no-code testing platform global

Tokyo-based MagicPod is a no-code test automation platform for web and mobile apps that, until now, almost exclusively focused on the Japanese market. There, it counts Line, Japan’s most popular messaging app, among its over 500 customers. Today, the company is launching version 1.0, and with